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Summary

One of four small clearance cairns within the medieval and later field system west of Venford Reservoir. The Ordnance Survey (1977) suggested these as Prehistoric cairns, but 1996 Royal Commission field survey (1996) reclassified as Medieval or later clearance mounds. It measures 4.0m in diameter and 0.4m high with a stone content, now turf and heather covered, but no particular features. It is within a reave system and 3.0m from a north to south lynchet.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020487: Part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system and other archaeological remains on Holne Moor west and north west of Venford Reservoir

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE113
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443188
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/156
• Old SAM Ref: 22368

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) CAIRN (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• CLEARANCE CAIRN (Constructed, Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE113 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV153262.

(03/12/1977) At SX 68217156, in a crest situation at 315m OD is a small cairn. It is 4.0m in diameter and 0.4m high with a stone content, now turf and heather covered, but no particular features. It is within a reave system and 3.0m from a north to south lynchet. If it is a clearance cairn it is the only one in the area and for this reason alone it seems more likely to have a sepulchral or ritual significance.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible on National Monuments Record 1977 aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 180, Map 60, Figure 60.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Venford Brook W, '1' cairn at SX 68227154 of 3.8 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high is a small cairn retaining a good shape and undug. It was probably a burial mound though another pile of scattered stones within the adjoining field to the south-west may have been a clearance heap.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(18/04/1996) SX 6822 7155. One of four small clearance cairns within the Medieval and later field system west of Venford Reservoir. This is not a prehistoric feature. The other cairns are recorded as SX 67 SE 246.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1020487 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within the scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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